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wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and Windows with support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i/RSN). It is suitable for both desktop/laptop computers and embedded systems. Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication/association of the wlan driver.

wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and Windows with support for WPA and WPA2 (IEEE 802.11i/RSN). It is suitable for both desktop/laptop computers and embedded systems. Supplicant is the IEEE 802.1X/WPA component that is used in the client stations. It implements key negotiation with a WPA Authenticator and it controls the roaming and IEEE 802.11 authentication/association of the wlan driver.

wpa_supplicant is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the background and acts as the backend component controlling the wireless connection. wpa_supplicant supports separate frontend programs and a text-based frontend (wpa_cli) and a GUI (wpa_gui) are included with wpa_supplicant.

More information can be found at http://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/.

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How to get WiFi security key(WPA, WPA2, ESS) of scanned networks using NL80211_BSS_CAPABILITY?

I'm using netlink library nl80211.h to scan wifi networks and successfully getting ssid, mac address, status, frequency and signal. I want to add security type of every network using same library. I'm using NL80211_BSS_CAPABILITY as one of the enums…
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Why does "dbus: ...wpa_supplicant... getter failed" shows up on boot?

This shows up after booting my x220 thinkpad: dbus: fill_dict_with_properties dbus_interface=fi.w1.wpa_supplicant1.Interface.P2PDevice dbus_property=P2PDeviceConfig getter failed Btw, I'm using Artix Linux with Runit and also NetworkManager.
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Writing an external program to interface with wpa_supplicant

I need to interact directly with wpa_supplicant from Python. As I understand it one can connect to wpa_supplicant using Unix sockets and wpa_supplicant control interface (https://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/devel/ctrl_iface_page.html). I wrote a simple…
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raspian Buster can't connect to eduroam wpa_supplicant v.2.8

Hey Guys I would like to connect the raspberry pi of our universits (hs-augsburg) to the eduroam network. I am usind the Wpa_supplicant version 2.8. I can't /don't know how to upgrade to the version 2.9. I changed the wpa_supplican.conf to (User and…
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Unable to establish second Raspberry Pi [WIFI Direct] to a device

I have 2 Raspberry Pi and an Android Tablet and the Tablet is supposed to be controlling the Raspberry Pi via the webserver from the Pi. The Android Tablet has a Wifi Direct application and I was able to establish connection with one of the Pi.…
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Modifying wpa_Supplicant TB-X304F_

I have 285 different networks between the different campus apartments for which I am trying to add network profile information to a series of Lenovo Tab4 10 TB-X304F so they may connect without having our Apartment Managers carry around a list of…
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Checking wpa_supplicant output from Python app

I have a Python/Flask web app on a Raspberry Pi that calls the following bash script (connect_to_wifi) to connect to WiFi: sudo killall wpa_supplicant sudo wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf sudo dhclient…
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Get signal level of the connected WiFi network

Using wpa_supplicant 2.4 on ARM Debian. Is there a way to get signal level, in decibels or percents, of the wireless network I’m currently connected to? STATUS command only returns the following set of values: bssid, freq, ssid, id, mode,…
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wpa_supplicant debug messages

I am trying to connect to a wifi network from a Raspberry Pi 3 (running Raspbian Wheezy) using wpa_supplicant commands being called through Python scripts. The connection is happening but I am observing random disconnections from wifi, which is…
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How to connect raspberry to WEP encrypted and dhcp enabled Ad-Hoc network

I have Three Rasbperry Pi3 and I have configured 2 of them as dhcp enabled ad-hoc network server they are working fine and I can connect to them using Windows PC and Linux PC as well as from Mobile. The dhcp also assigns the 'Laptop, PC and Mobile'…
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List WPA supplicant network properties using dbus-cpp

When trying to list network properties - https://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/devel/dbus.html#dbus_network using dbus-cpp I get a number of errors about missing operator== for core::dbus::types::Variant /usr/include/core/dbus/impl/object.h:185:17: …
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Test EAP-SIM with hostapd and wpa_supplicant

i am trying to test EAP-SIM with hostapd as AP and wpa_supplicant. I have built the hlr_auc_gw in hostapd for doing this. hlr_auc_gw and hostapd start fine but when i start wpa_supplicant, nothing happens. EDIT: hostapd.conf…
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How to write a file inside system/etc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf file using android program?

I am working on wifi related app, which takes the user giving username password and need to write(edit/append)in a file which is located in system/etc/wifi/ path. I searched in stackoverflow and got some answers and then tried but there is no luck.…
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wpa_supplicant reply to any command with UNKNOWN COMMAND except PING, LIST_NETWORKS, ATTACH, DETACH, TERMINATE, and STATUS?

First of all my target system is android. I created a c++ application to communicate with wpa_supplicant through the control interface provided as a wpa_ctrl.c file (I included the header file wpa_ctrl.h and linked with the library libwpa_client.so)…
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Installation of Wpasupplicant failed on ubuntu 16.04 server, problems with libnl-3-dev

I am trying to install the latest Wpa_Supplicant on Ubuntu 16.04 server from the official website. According to http://deployingradius.com/scripts/eapol_test/ I uncommented CONFIG_EAPOL_TEST=yes and run make eapol_test but I get failed: /usr/bin/ld:…
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